DD Support Board and Research Team

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Do you remember whether GE matched your contribution? 25% in GE doesn't seem totally unreasonable or dumb especially if they added to your buys. My company was located next door to a small GE office and I knew some brainy people there. I dodged a bullet by somehow never buying their stock.

The period 1984-1989 was when I fell in love with index funds and the wisdom of Vanguard's John Bogle. My own individual stocks, and the several mutual funds I owned, virtually always lagged the S&P 500. Only in the last 10-15 years have I moved back into some individual blue chip stocks because I worried about having too much of my money in index funds.

35 years later I still say, it's very hard to beat index funds.